When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAs long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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